Microfinance Decision Making: A Field Study of Prosocial Lending

By Jeff Galak, Deborah A. Small, Andrew T. Stephen. 2011

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Subfields: Business and International Management, Economics and Econometrics, Management Information Systems

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Funding the story of hybrid ventures: Crowdfunder lending preferences and linguistic hybridity (2017, background): “Future work could gauge the effect of language representing an orientation towards women in the microenterprise (Galak et al., 2011); does a”
Evaluating credit risk and loan performance in online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending (2015, background): “Galak et al. (2011) further show that lenders tend to favour individual over group borrowers and borrowers who are socially proximate to themselves.”
Cultural Differences and Geography as Determinants of Online Prosocial Lending (2014, background): “We also contribute directly to the literatures on pro-social lending and charitable contribution (Baron and Szymanska 2011; Galak et al. 2011) by demonstrating the importance of cultural differences”
Crowdfunding: Geography, Social Networks, and the Timing of Investment Decisions (2015, background): “, Lerner (1995), Gompers (1995)), and 3) information on what others have done - they provide investment information (e.”
Crowdfunding in a Prosocial Microlending Environment: Examining the Role of Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Cues (2015, methodology): “Given this unique contextual distinction, scholars have suggested that microfinance is a field of “prosocial lending” (Galak et al., 2011) in which lenders – ordinary people – evaluate prospective borrowers on both traditional lending criteria and prosocial, charitable criteria.”
Prosocial Goal Pursuit in Crowdfunding: Evidence from Kickstarter (2019, unknown): “Thus, building on prior research about the identifiable victim effect (Galak, Small, and Stephen 2011; Jenni and Loewenstein 1997; Kogut and Ritov 2005a, b; Small and Loewenstein 2003), we predict that people are more likely to care about creators’ funding goals and engage in prosocial goal pursuit…”
Prosocial Behavior in Intergroup Relations: How Donor Self-Construal and Recipient Group-Membership Shape Generosity (2014, background): “To this effect, a review of interest-free loans made via the Kiva initiative to entrepreneurs in the developing world found that lenders tend to favor borrowers who are similar to them (e.g., with the same gender, occupation, and first-name initial; Galak, Small, and Stephen 2011).”